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Although part of most applications (because let’s not kid ourselves the vast majority of applications are CRUD apps) a well designed accessible form is still one of those things that is really hard to achieve. Let's talk about ways we can make them more accessible.

When we open a door in the physical world, it does not instantly go from closed to open. There is a transition period between the two states when the door is in motion. We can now also give our users transitions between states in our UIs using CSS animations and transitions. Whether we are opening a menu, adding a hover effect, or creating a loader, animating the transition between states can help keep our users oriented and give our applications a much more natural feel.

A look at some of the unit tests we can write against a reactive form written in Angular to validate that it does in fact behave the way we intend it to.

Once upon a time, we didn't have much of a choice but to use float to create our layouts. It developed a bad reputation because of being misused from lack of other options. In many cases we now use Flex and Grid for many of our layouts, but float has some new tricks up its sleeve! With some new CSS features, it is much easier and a lot more fun to use than it once was. Let’s take a look at what happens when we combine some new and old techniques for some really cool effects.

In this talk we will delve into the ways in which, especially when working remotely, we communicate and interact, and the little things we can do to make those communications more accessible for all.

From cakes, to pastries and cookies, to bread, there are striking similarities between baking and web development. In this talk we will go over the similarities and how the choices we make in baking can help us make better architectural and planning decisions regarding our development projects.

Together we will delve into the psychology, physiology, and mathematics of design principles to create more usable designs.

In this talk we will cover a little bit about the history of typography leading up to where we are today, how to make decisions about fonts and their usage in our application, and the CSS properties that allow us to manipulate our type for a polished beautiful design.

Instead of looking at code implementation, this talk will cover what questions to ask when getting started and how to read and understand the specification. We will then look at how different roles on the team are affected and the impact and changes including accessibility as part of development will have on the development cycle.

For almost 15 years we have had Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (SASS) to help us write our CSS. But are we really using sass to its fullest? We know about variables, and nesting properties is nice, but what else can it do for us?

In this talk we will go over what the SVG code looks like, what it means, and how to generate it. Then we will delve into not only how to manipulate the styles but also how to add functionality in them such as links and click events.

10 common accessibility fails, how to test for them, and how to fix them.

The knowledge you need to go forth and create your own components, understand how to make them look gorgeous, and what if any limitations there are. Also, find out how you can bring back the blink tag!

As your spell master, I will teach you to cast eloquent spells with a dash CSS transitions, a drop of keyframes and a pinch of html that you can quickly apply to your spells to remove daze and confusion.

Tables have gotten a bad reputation over the years. Historically, we used them for layout, a practice thoroughly frowned upon today. When responsive and fluid layouts came into the scene, they proved difficult to work with. As a result, we have shied away from them but it doesn't have to be this way.

This hands on workshop is for those interested in learning how to get started. You will take an existing website and identify and fix its accessibility issues.

In this talk we will go over what accessibility means in the context of web content and how to get your team started in making sure your content can be accessed by all.

In this talk we will look at the history of the display property and ways you can use it to display, hide, and layout content.

A developer staple: the CRUD app. We all write them, and they all contain forms. Lots of forms.

Together we will delve into the psychology, physiology, and mathematics of design principles for two key purposes: Validating our design, and Convincing others of the value and validity of our designs.

We will look at best practices for supporting the developer experience, including documentation, processes, tools, and supporting systems.

Come learn how easy it can be to use Google Firebase to take your app idea from concept to production. In this workshop you will learn how to build your own Twitter-like social messaging application, start to finish.